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| National Jazz Museum in Harlem April 2013 Schedule This April, The National Jazz Museum in Harlem continues to offer a wide range of top quality free programming and affordable concerts from jazz's most celebrated musicians, educators and historians. With International Jazz Day on April 30th our Jazz For Curious Listeners series this month focuses on international artists discussing and demonstrating jazz from around the world and culminates with an international jazz jam blowout with Jonathan Batiste on April 30th at MIST Harlem. Our Scandinavian and European followers may be able to join Loren Schoenberg's IJD events in Norway and The Netherlands. For our friends on the West Coast, join the museum's Artistic Director Loren Schoenberg for a discussion on the Savory collection at Stanford University's Cantor Arts Center. We hope to see you, your family and friends at as many of our events as you can make during this exciting month at The National Jazz Museum in Harlem. You're bound to meet other similarly exciting, interesting and vital people – like yourselves! Tuesday, April 2, 2013 Jazz for Curious Listeners International Jazz @ NJMH Featuring Ole Mathisen (Norway) 7:00 – 8:30pm Location: Metropolitan Community United Methodist Church, NE Corner of 126th Street and Madison Avenue, enter on 126th FREE | For more information: 212-348-8300 Saxophonist, composer, and producer, Ole Mathisen presents and discusses tracks spanning his 25 year career as a recording artist. Emphasizing cross-cultural jazz projects, the session will encompass collaborations starting in Boston right after graduating from Berklee College of Music in Boston with drummer extraordinaire Bob Moses, all the way up until todays work with cutting edge groups like the chamber jazz ensemble FFEAR, Iraqi maqam and jazz infused Two Rivers, and contemporary latin jazz ensemble, Afromantra. The session will include a short demonstration of developing a micro-tonal and a fluid odd-meter rhythmic language on the saxophone. Tuesday, April 9, 2013 Jazz for Curious Listeners International Jazz @ NJMH Featuring Rez Abbasi on South Asian Jazz 7:00 – 8:30pm Location: Metropolitan Community United Methodist Church, NE Corner of 126th Street and Madison Avenue, enter on 126th FREE | For more information: 212-348-8300 Leading up to our April 30th International Jazz Day concert at MIST, Jazz For Curious Listeners is focusing on the global influence of jazz with NYC's premiere jazz musicians from around the world. This evening, join guitarist Rez Abbasi as he discusses South Asian music and its connection to Jazz. For over a decade, Abbasi has been blazing a new trail as a leading figure in South Asian - American cutting edge jazz. His work spans far and wide, performing in award-winning groups as Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo- Pak Coalition and Kinsmen and Indian Juno award winning vocalist, Kiran Ahluwalia's group along with many other projects. In 2012, Abbasi was voted #2 Rising Star Guitarist in Down Beat magazine's prestigious International Critic's Poll. Rez Abbasi migrated to the US from Pakistan at age four. Since an early age he has immersed himself in both western and eastern music, studying and performing with a variety of Indian classical musicians as well as jazz musicians. His compositions and playing reflect his individuality and create an ideal hybrid of modern jazz and world inflections. Rez has released several albums as a leader, from acoustic guitar driven quartet music, to electrified organ trio featuring Indian vocals. His ultra - modern quintet, Invocation pulls all aspects of his persona into a cohesive, distinctive voice, rarely paralleled in today's jazz. Including band mates, Mahanthappa, Vijay Iyer, Dan Weiss, Johannes Weidenmueller and guest, Kiran Ahluwalia, Invocation's debut release, Things To Come (sunnyside 2009) was included in Downbeat magazine's 'best albums of the decade'. That same year Rez received the prestigious Chamber Music America New Works grant for composition. For Invocation's second release, Suno Suno (enja 2011) and his eighth recording, Rez's compositions focused on a musical form from Pakistan called, Qawwali. With hard-driving grooves and sophisticated melodies, Suno Suno ended the year on many critics 'best of' lists. www.reztone.com Thursday, April 11, 2013 Jazz Is: Now! Hosted by Jonathan Batiste and the STAY HUMAN Band 7:00 – 8:30pm Location: Dance Theatre of Harlem 466 W 152nd St, New York, NY 10031 FREE | For more information: 212-348-8300 Jazz Is: Now! has become the museum's most popular program – hosted by Jonathan Batiste and is Stay Human band, it's a must for people who want to feel the live buzz and electricity of jazz in the moment! Join us back at the Dance Theatre of Harlem for a very special night- you're in for a treat! Friday, April 12, 2013 PBS: American Songbook and the NJMH Savory Collection Look for the NJMH on PBS's acclaimed MICHAEL FEINSTEIN'S AMERICAN SONGBOOK series on Friday 4/12. Liza Minnelli and others are also featured in the broadcast. The Museum's Savory Collection (over 100 hours of previously unknown classic jazz from 1936-46) brought Michael to Harlem, where he did an impromptu jam with NJMH Artistic Director Loren Schoenberg, and to Grammy-award winning sound engineer Doug Pomeroy's studio to get an in-depth look and listen to these historic recordings. Read the great NY Times Article on the Savory Collection here. MICHAEL FEINSTEIN'S AMERICAN SONGBOOK airs as part of PBS ARTS, one of broadcast television's only programming blocks dedicated to the best in performing arts, on Fridays, April 5, 2013, 9:00-11:00 p.m. ET and April 12, 2013, 10:00-11:00 p.m. ET on PBS. Friday, April 12, 2013 Harlem in the Himalayas Adam Kromelow Trio 7:00pm Location: Rubin Museum of Art (150 West 17th Street) $20/Door $18/Advance | For more information: rmanyc.org Described as "the real deal" by All About Jazz and "a sensational pianist, and brilliant young musician" by The Buffalo News, pianist Adam Kromelow is making a name for himself in today's music scene. Originally from the north suburbs of Chicago, Adam grew up listening to all kinds of music, and fostered a love for playing piano at an early age. When he was eighteen, he moved to New York City to study at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music from which he graduated in 2011. There, he was fortunate enough to study with modern jazz piano icons Jason Moran and Vijay Iyer. Adam's trio has been turning heads with the release of their debut album Youngblood on ZOHO Records. This album, produced by Grammy-winning pianist Arturo O'Farrill, reached #14 on the College Music Journal radio charts and has been widely acclaimed by critics. It was chosen as one of the Top Ten CDs of 2012 by The Philadelphia Inquirer, named the Debut Album of the Year by Nippertown Magazine, and hailed as "one of the most captivating discs by a jazz trio in years" by The Toledo Blade. Aside from his trio, Adam has been performing throughout the country with numerous ensembles. In the winter of 2010, he made his debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as a guest soloist for their Welcome Yule concerts at Chicago's Symphony Hall. In addition, Adam was selected by pianist Brad Mehldau to perform in his solo piano master class held by the Carnegie Hall Professional Training Workshop. Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Jazz for Curious Listeners International Jazz @ NJMH Featuring James Shipp on Swinging Across Cutlures: Celtic, Caribbean, and Brazilian Rhythms and more! 7:00 – 8:30pm Location: Metropolitan Community United Methodist Church, NE Corner of 126th Street and Madison Avenue, enter on 126th FREE | For more information: 212-348-8300 Leading up to our April 30th International Jazz Day concert at MIST, Jazz For Curious Listeners is focusing on the global influence of jazz with NYC’s premiere jazz musicians rooted in cross-cultural collaboration. Shipp plays a wide variety of instruments and styles, most which are based in or around jazz, which he refers to as the “big tent” in the international music world. A comparative discussion and demonstration of what it means (and how it sounds) to be 'swinging' in the contexts of jazz, traditional Irish music, South American musics, and music from northern Africa, including both recorded examples and live examples played by percussionist James Shipp on the vibraphone, the Irish bodhran, the Brazilian pandeiro, the Peruvian cajon, and the Moroccan Qraqeb. Brooklyn-based James Shipp is a vibraphonist, percussionist, and composer/songwriter in the creative music scene of New York City. As a multi-instrumentalist and cultural explorer, he enjoys constantly performing in new, exciting, and dispirate musical situations. As a bandleader, he enjoys blurring the lines between jazz, Brazilian music, UK folk, and open improvisation in his duo with trumpeter Nadje Noordhuis, his Brazilian band Choro Dragão, and his eclectic song-focused Irish project, Nós Novo, James studied jazz vibraphone in his conservatory days, and has since expanded into playing percussion for Afro-Brazilian and Celtic groups, as well as with several of New York’s top genre-blurring singer-songwriters and modern large ensembles. James has performed with numerous masters of the jazz world and beyond, including vocalists Kurt Elling and Kate McGarry, saxophonists Paquito D‘Rivera, Anat Cohen, and Jane Ira Bloom, and tabla legend Ustad Zakir Hussain. In the fall of 2011, James was asked to take part in developing the percussive accompaniments to the songs of Sting’s forthcoming musical, ‘The Last Ship.’ Join us for a unique demonstration and discussion on the threads between Brazilian, Caribbean, and Celtic traditions and rhythms- write your comments about the article :: © 2013 Jazz News :: home page |